CoronaVirusComics FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Alien Germs"

By the late 1950s, we were so confident in advances in medicine...

...that the only way we'd face a catastrophic pandemic was if it was of alien (that's extraterrestrial, not illegal) origin!

Wow!
Is there nothing science (with assistance from alien tech) can't solve?

According to this story from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #71 (1958) by writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist John Rosenberger the answer was clearly "NO"!

Interestingly, when the story was reprinted in ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #166 (1966), only two things were altered...both on the title page...

See the diifferences?

The title has been altered and the extremely-optimistic opening blurb about mankind's almost-miraculous medical acumen was deleted!

Was it simply because, in the mid-1960s, we were no longer totally-trusting about our government and other authority figures?

Or was it...dare I say it...a conspiracy?

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Forbidden Worlds Archives
Volume 3

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics DRACULA COMICS "Invasion"

Covid-19 isn't the only virus afflicting mankind...

...as this rather bizarre feature demonstrates!

Kool, eh?

Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's Drácula V1N5 (1971)!

It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine and as a standalone tale in color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!

So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)

Is THIS Our Future?

Is this our future...

...thanks to the ineptitude of President Don da Con?

Legendary artist Basil Wolverton did these illustrations for articles in a religious organization's magazine about the Book of Revelations.

They were later compiled, along with others, into a multi-volume version of the Bible by that same organization which covered from Genesis to Revelations!

Here's the final image in the series that was so shocking, the editors initially refused to publish it!

Is this our future???
The Choice is Up to YOU!!!

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Wolverton Bible

(which takes the HTF 1970s limited-distribution multi-volume series and reprints it in a single hardcover book!)

CORONAVIRUS COMICS...Because Real Life is TOO Scary...

...we present tales of fictional epidemics/pandemics daily here on this blog...

...and our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics...
...plus...

...Heroines...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Crime & Punishment...

...True Love Comics Tales

(you'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories involve disease)...

...Not Safe for Work Comics...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...War: Past Present & Future...

...Hero Histories...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

...Western Comics Adventures...
Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!

CoronaVirus Comics / Friday Fun CRAZY "Flu Strains from DIfferent Countries"

You thought that, during the 1970s, we were becoming more sensitive to ethnic humor?

You obviously weren't around then, bunkie!

While TV series like All in the Family and films like Kentucky Fried Movie were cleverly skewering racial stereotypes, some pop culture contributors were still indulging in them, as this (not surprisingly) never-reprinted feature from Marvel's Crazy Magazine #43 (1978) proves!

I don't know what writer Fred Wolfe and artist John Langton were thinking when they created this, but the fact that editor Paul Laikin let it see print doesn't speak well for any of their sensibilities!

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